1st Edition

Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation Stories from the Field

Edited By Billie Lythberg, Christine Woods, Susan Nemec Copyright 2025
222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity, and psychosocial therapy.... Read more

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Section One

 

Chapter 1:  Making space at the institutional table: Co-work and risk in the colonial university

         Sarah Maddison

Chapter 2:  'So, are you Indigenous?’ Settler responsibilities when teaching Indigenous Australian Studies

          Holly Randell-Moon

Chapter 3: ‘It’s complicated’: Reflections on Teaching Citizenship in Aotearoa - New Zealand

Sharon McLennan, Giles Dodson, Ella Kahu, Carol Neill, and Richard Shaw             

Chapter 4: Indigenous Peer Learning in a Digital Third Space

            Christine Woods and Billie Lythberg

Chapter 5:  Remembering and repositioning episodes of historical violence between settlers and Indigenous people

Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata)

Section Two

Chapter 6:  Tau(gh)t relationships and fraught responsibilities: (de)colonisation practices in new non-Māori adult learners of te reo, the Māori language

          Michelle O’Toole

 

Chapter 7:  Co-Conspiring in a time of Hulihia at Mauna Kea

        Leanne P. Day and Rebecca H. Hogue

 

Chapter 8: Critical White Settler Projects as an intergenerational responsibility: Activating decolonial co-resistance in the cultural sector

       Leah Decter and Carla Taunton

 

Chapter 9: Does Indigenous Media have a role in building new migrant narratives of decolonisation?

        Susan Nemec

 

Chapter 10S is for Settler: A Psychosocial Perspective on Belonging and Unbelonging in Aotearoa New Zealand

        

            Keith Tudor

 

Chapter 11: Thinking about Pacific relational space, along-side and in the presence of tāngata whenua in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

          Tina (A.-Chr.) Engels-Schwarzpaul

 

Index

 

Biography

Billie Lythberg is of Swedish, Scottish, and English descent. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and International Business at  Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland, and an affiliated researcher of Vā Moana – Pacific Spaces at Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau |Auckland University of Technology. She has worked on multiple projects for the Royal Society of New Zealand with Māori and Moana colleagues, including the Marsden-funded project this book developed out of. She publishes extensively in print and online; curates and critiques exhibitions; and develops documentaries for broadcast television.

Christine Woods is the Theresa Gattung Chair for Women in Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. She also directs the Aotearoa Centre for Enterprising Women and teaches courses on Women and Entrepreneurship to undergraduate and MBA students. Her research interests include women and entrepreneurship, SME and family business, social entrepreneurship, Māori entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship education. Chris is part of The ICEHOUSE Business Growth Programmes' directing team and mentors several women who have recently started businesses. She is also on the board of several businesses and is a founding director of Māori Maps, and has worked on multiple projects for the Royal Society of New Zealand with Māori colleagues, including the Marsden-funded project this book developed out of.

Susan Nemec is a research associate at the Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland. Her research interests are multifaceted, weaving together various threads to explore contemporary social dynamics. Her interests include how gender dynamics shape entrepreneurial endeavours and the intricate relationship between media representation and cross-cultural understanding. Susan's research provides a nuanced and interdisciplinary understanding of identity, representation, and power dynamics in contemporary society, contributing to both academic scholarship and broader societal discussions.